In my wife's gradfather's obituary (Shields Gazette Feb 1955) there is mention of him attending The Grammar School in Romilly Street (this would probably have been in the mid 1880's).
Try as I may I have not been able to locate such an establishment through any of the usual search channels.
Can anyone throw any light on this for me?

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My 1894 map of shields has no mention of a Grammer School on Romilly Street, there is a Sunday School shown on the corner of Romilly Street and Broughton Road also a school one street away but it would be on Westoe Lane not Romilly Steet.

I now have a map 1896 (not the repro 1895 Alan Godfrey edition) which shows the Grammar School next to the Westoe Baptist Chapel as mentioned by a couple of members. Does anyone have a photograph or point me to a likely site where there might be one please?

radstockjeff

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